This week’s promotional discount is on my 2007 fun quiz book Ask Me Another. Suitable for
all ages, it offers a great way not only of testing your Bible knowledge but also of learning
more about the people, places, stories and events recorded in Scripture. Normally retailing at
£15.99, this week, until 25 September, you can purchase it at a 10 per cent discount – a
saving of £1.60 – using the code ASK10 when ordering the book from the Kevin Mayhew
website. Just type the code into the relevant box at the checkout between the dates given.
Meanwhile, here’s the first of seven sessions I’ll be posting this week from the book, to run
alongside this promotion. Answers in each case will be supplied on the following day.
Answers to True or false? quiz
- False: Adam blamed Eve for tempting him and she blamed the serpent (Genesis
3:12, 13). - True: Joseph of Arimathea was indeed a secret disciple (John 19:38).
- True: there are four chapters in Philippians.
- False: Mary left Martha to do all the work (Luke 10:38-42).
- True: John 11:17 tells us that Lazarus was in his tomb for four days.
- False: the girl who challenged Peter after he’d denied Jesus isn’t named (Matthew 26:69, 70; Mark 14:66-68; Luke 22:54-57; John 18:17).
- True: the verse about laying down one’s life is in John 15:13.
- False: Elijah defeated the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:20-40).
- True: according to Genesis 1, God made the light first (vv. 1-5) then the sun and moon three days later (vv. 14-19).
- True: God placed a mark on Cain’s forehead for his own protection (Genesis 4:15).
- False: Paul tells of his Damascus Road experience in Galatians 1:13-24.
- True: Paul’s sister is mentioned in Acts 23:16.
- True: Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah are the original names of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego (Daniel 1:7).
- True: Bethany is just two miles away from Jerusalem (John 11:18).
- False: Acts 2:15 tells us that the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost took place at around nine o’clock in the morning.
Spot the parable
Each of the following verses is taken from one of the parables of Jesus. Can you identify which one?
- But when the sun rose, they were scorched; and since they had no root they withered away.
- When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders and rejoices.
- Do you thank the slave for doing what was commanded?
- If he comes during the middle of the night, or near dawn, and finds them so, blessed are those slaves.
- And again he sent another slave to them; this one they beat over the head and insulted.
- Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it will begin to ridicule him …
- Then the king will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world …’
- Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; please accept my regrets.’
- … for a friend of mine has arrived, and I have nothing to set before him.
- Just so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.
- He replied, ‘Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig round it and put manure on it …’
- When his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their lord all that had taken place.
- The next day he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, ‘Take care of him; and when I come back, I will repay you whatever more you spend.’
- For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
- So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared as well.